The Relationship Between Students’ Learning Motivation and Their Speaking Ability at The Eighth Grade Students of SMPQ Al Ihsan Jakarta on The First Semester in the 2020/2021 Academic Year

dr. roslaini, m. hum;

IKA MAWADDAH. NIM: 1601055093. “The Relationship Between Students’ Learning Motivation and Their Speaking Ability at The Eighth Grade Students of SMPQ Al Ihsan Jakarta on The First Semester in the 2020/2021 Academic Year”. A paper, Jakarta: Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR HAMKA, 2021.
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the significant relationship between students’ learning motivation and their English speaking abilities. The method that the writer used in this study was the correlation study. The eighth grade students of SMPQ Al Ihsan were selected as the population. There were 35 students as the sample of this research by using random sampling. Speaking test was done to measure the students’ speaking abilities. By using oral Proficiency categories from Brown (2004), the students‘ speaking abilities were scored in the terms of the four subskills of vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and fluency. Pearson Product-Moment was used to find out the correlation between variables.
The data were collected and calculated by using the questionnaire and speaking test. After collecting the data, the writer analyzed the pre-exquisite test analysis of those normality and linearity tests. The result of the research data was normal and linear, and then it can be continued to analyze the research hypothesis by using Pearson Product Moment coefficient correlation analysis. The result were ro is higher then rtable (ro = 0,35 > rt = 0.34). It can be concluded Ho was rejected and Hi was accepted. It means that there is a relationship between students learning motivation and the speaking abilities.